When asked for the best startup database, 6 AI assistants named 8 brands between them this month. Airtable was named most often, followed by PostgreSQL and MySQL. 2 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Airtable, PostgreSQL.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airtable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| PostgreSQL | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| MySQL | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| SQLite | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Supabase | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Firebase | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| Google Sheets | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Microsoft Access | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 6 brands, in this order: Airtable, Google Sheets, Microsoft Access, SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
Choosing the best startup database for a small business depends on several factors, including the specific needs of the business, the type of data being managed, the budget, and the technical expertise available within the team.
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: Airtable, Supabase, PostgreSQL.
For a small business, the best startup database depends on who will use it and how technical your team is.
Claude
Named 8 brands, in this order: Google Sheets, Airtable, SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access, Supabase, Firebase.
The "best" option depends on your specific needs, but here are some top choices:
Grok
Named 5 brands, in this order: Supabase, PostgreSQL, Airtable, SQLite, Firebase.
The best database for a small business depends on your technical skills, whether you're building an app or just organizing internal data, and how much you want to avoid managing infrastructure.
DeepSeek
Named 6 brands, in this order: PostgreSQL, Supabase, MySQL, SQLite, Airtable, Google Sheets.
There isn't a single "best" startup database — the right choice depends on what you're optimizing for (cost, ease of use, scale, team skills).
Cohere
Named 4 brands, in this order: Firebase, Airtable, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
Choosing the best startup database for a small business depends on several factors, including the type of data you need to manage, your technical expertise, scalability requirements, and budget.
The questions asked
- What is the best startup database for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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